Veronika Bromova

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Veronika Bromova is one of the Czech Republic's most honoured and popular new-media artists. She lives and works in Prague. Working with new media, she has exhibited extensively in Europe and the United States. She has received many grants and awards, including the International Studio Program in New York, 1998. Most recently she represented the Czech Republic at the 1999 Venice Biennale.

Bromova was discovered as a two-year-old by a well-known Socialist Realist sculptor, Lidicky, who used her as the model for the child in a monumental sculpture of the "Ideal Socialist Family", which was placed beside the national memorial building on a hill in central Prague, where the mummified body of the first Communist president, Klement Gottwald, was housed. The statue for which she modelled still stands there, but the building is virtually abandoned.

The core of Bromova's work is photographic; she often uses computer manipulation or adds objects. Her models are herself or those around her. The results go beyond mere portraiture or narcissism, however; rather, she is able to keep a distance from her subjects in the process of exploration of human body, its limitations, desires, and different forms.